A Learning Field Retreat · Integrity Soils
Gather & Lead
Limited to 16 participants · Early-bird pricing ends Sat, Nov 7, 2026
About this retreat
The deep work of becoming the leader the work needs
Today's leaders have more research, more data and more advice than any generation before them. What's in short supply isn't knowledge. It's the courage and capacity to act on it: to make the hard call, hold the room, and bring people with you.
Gather & Lead is an intensive, distilled version of our flagship CREATE program, brought together in one intimate retreat for people carrying real responsibility — executives and managers, policy makers, advisors, and those who lead teams, organizations and communities.
Whether you run a business, shape policy, manage a team or care for others, the pressures are strikingly similar. Yet the people who carry them rarely sit in the same room. Gather & Lead brings them together, so each can learn from how the others lead.
Five days in the Montana mountains, followed by three months of dedicated one-on-one coaching and a final online integration session.
Who it's for
If you're involved with meaningful purpose driven work this is for you
Do any of these sound familiar?
You've given years to this work, and quietly you're asking: is this actually making the difference I thought it would?
You built a team, tried to distribute the load, and somehow you're still the one holding everything together.
You're the one others call when things go wrong, and you can't remember the last time someone asked how you're doing.
You spend your days caring for others, and the system you work in leaves little room to care for yourself.
You're wondering what happens to this place, and this work, after you.
Your organization is fighting for regeneration — but running on the very models you're working against.
You've done the programs, filled in the workbooks, gone home and watched it dissolve back into the relentlessness of the day to day.
What you'll work through
We work on the questions most programs skip
Clarity on what to put down
Identify what to stop doing — the commitments, habits, and assumptions quietly draining you — and have permission to set them down for good.
A long view for your organization
Map where your organization is, where your industry is heading, and articulate your organization's place in the wider system it's part of.
Conflict & communication tools
How to move through hard conversations without losing yourself or the relationship. Listening more fully, speaking more powerfully.
Empowering others to lead
Create the conditions for the people around you to truly step up — not just agree with you.
Frameworks for uncertainty
Thinking clearly when the picture isn't complete, making decisions when the ground is shifting.
Values in daily practice
Making your organization reflect your deepest values — not just in the mission statement, but in every meeting, every hire, every decision.
What's included
Everything you need, taken care of
- Accommodation for 4 nights (see options below)
- Intensive distilled sessions from the CREATE program
- Airport shuttle to and from Bozeman
- Your own dedicated coach for 3 months post-retreat
- All meals throughout the retreat
- Final online integration session to map what comes next
- A cohort of serious peers from across sectors and disciplines
- Deep exploration of legacy leadership & values alignment
Your facilitators
Led by people who live this work
Nicole Masters
Agroecologist · Author · Lead Coach
Decades of experience in deep ecological systems thinking, Nicole has supported organizations managing over 30 million acres worldwide. Lead coach and curriculum developer for the CREATE program. Author of For the Love of Soil.
Meagan Lannan
COO, Integrity Soils · Regenerative Rancher
Co-owner of Barney Creek Livestock, a pioneering regenerative adaptive grazing enterprise in the Greater Yellowstone region. Expert facilitator across diverse groups from small teams to large industry associations and government bodies.
"Nicole and Meagan are truly one-of-a-kind facilitators — innovative, impactful, and deeply inspiring. Their approach to leadership development is unparalleled, helping you unlock your full potential by sparking curiosity and self-discovery."— Kelsey Scott, Chief Strategy Officer, Intertribal Agriculture Council
Is this for you?
This is not for me if…
I'm looking for another framework on a laminated card
I want another certification for LinkedIn
I need someone to validate the way I've always done things
This is exactly for me if…
I'm ready to stop asking how — and start asking who do I need to be
I want a shift that travels home with me and actually sticks
I want to gather with serious people from beyond my own field and do the real work
Investment
Gather & Lead
Hardscrabble Ranch, Montana · Dec 7–11, 2026
Shared room
$6,250
Early-bird price
$4,250
Per person · all-inclusive
Single room
$6,650
Early-bird price
$4,650
Private room in the lodge
Winter glamping
$6,650
Early-bird price
$4,650
Heated private glamping tent on site
Private lodge
$7,250
Early-bird price
$5,250
Exclusive-use private lodge accommodation
Early-bird pricing ends Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · All prices in USD · Limited to 16 participants
Money-back guarantee. We are 100% confident that Gather & Lead will deliver something genuinely novel, meaningful, and impactful. If you don't leave feeling it was worth the financial investment, we'll refund you — minus the cost of accommodation and food — and ask only for a candid conversation with our coaching team about how we can do better.